Gunner Robert Cutting, aged 18, from Blackley Manchester, was shot dead at 4am whilst on foot patrol at the junction of Lepper Street and Stratheden Street, in the New Lodge area of Belfast. This was a blue on blue incident.

A chronology of the Northern Ireland Conflict September- October 1972 entitled The Troubles issue 17 describes the tragic incident and states a Marine was also seriously injured after 2 patrols mistook each other for gunmen.

Marine Adam Gilbert was the victim of an accidental shooting when his patrol tried to stop a stolen car at a checkpoint on the New Lodge Road, Belfast.[Source: AFM ROH / NIVets.org / Northern Ireland - An Agony Continued author Ken Wharton.]

Corporal Dennis Leach was killed by the blast from an explosion during operations in Northern Ireland.Also killed Mne. Michael John Southern. They were both killed by an IRA bomb hidden at an observation post at Drummuckavall.

Marine James Macklin was fatally wounded whilst on patrol in North Belfast .

Extract from the Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 29 March 1974

Marine James Macklin. aged 28, who was wounded in a terrorist ambush a week ago, died last night in a Belfast hospital. He was shot in the head in Belfast's Antrim Road when gunmen operating from both sides of the street raked a vehicle carrying a patrol from 42 Commando Royal Marines. His mother was flown from her home in Milton, Glasgow. to his bedside and was with him when he died.*

Sergeant Derek Reed, attached to 652 Squadron, Army Air Corps, was killed with three other NCOs, by a booby trap bomb, as they got into their car outside the Knock-na-Moe Hotel in Omagh.[Source: AFM ROH / NIVets.org]

Marine Michael Southern was killed in an explosion during operations in Northern Ireland.Also killedCpl. Dennis Alfred Leach. They were both killed by an IRA bomb hidden at an observation post at Drummuckavall.

Ivor Swain was a well respected Sgt in 8 Alma Commando Battery, 29 Commando RA. He was killed when his Land Rover patrol was called out to investigate a reported incident. They drove into a blacked out articulated lorry which had been deliberately parked across the road with a white stripe painted up the side so that it looked like the road itself.*

Marine Gareth Wheddon was injured by an IRA bomb near Crossmaglen, Co.Armagh, Northern Ireland on the 9th November and died of his wounds 3 days later at Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast. [Sources: AFM ROH / NIVets.org / Northern Ireland - An Agony Continued author Ken Wharton.]